GIR'08 Final Call For Papers

[Christopher Jones -2]

Workshop on Geographical Information Retrieval GIR'08 - Final Call for papers
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This is a first call for papers for a workshop on Geographic Information
Retrieval (GIR'08), to be held in conjunction with the 17th ACM Conference
on Information and Knowledge Management, Napa Valley, USA
(http://www.cikm2008.org/). The workshop is the fifth in a series of
successful workshops held previously in conjunction with SIGIR 2004, CIKM
2005, SIGIR 2006 and CIKM 2007. The workshop will take place immediately
following the conference on October the 29th and 30th 2008.  

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together the growing community of
researchers and practitioners working in the field of geographic information
retrieval to discuss further progress within the field and potential future
research strands. Examples of topics that are particularly relevant include,
but are not confined to:

.        user needs and studies for geographic search;
.        architectures for geographic search engines;
.        spatial indexing of documents and images;
.        extraction of geographical context from documents and geo-datasets;
.        geographical annotation techniques for geo-referenced documents and images;
.        design, construction, maintenance and access methods for
        geographical ontologies, gazetteers and geographical thesauri;
.        geographical query interfaces for the web and geo-spatial libraries;
.        geographic information question/ answering services;
.        dealing with natural language in geographic information retrieval;
.        visualising of the results of geographic searches;
.        relevance ranking for geographical search; and
.        evaluation of the results of geographical search.

We invite the submission of papers of up to 8 pages for presentation as long
papers (30 minutes) and 2 page short abstracts reporting on work in progress
for short presentations (15 minutes). All submissions will be reviewed by
three members of the program committee, and all accepted papers will be
published in the workshop proceedings.

You should prepare your abstract in accordance with the CIKM camera-ready
instructions (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html) and submit
it using the EasyChair system, linked from the workshop website, by July
15th 2008.

Further details of the workshop will be available at
http://www.geo.unizh.ch/~rsp/gir08/

Please forward this message to anyone whom you think may have an interest in
the workshop.

With best wishes,

Ross Purves (ross.purves@...) and Chris Jones (c.b.jones@...)  

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